Ray Tomlinson says he kept driving after his 31-year-old girlfriend died. He says he had his 92-year-old mother in the van and wanted to get her home. The 62-year-old Clinton Township man says he also feared arrest and wanted to get the body to a Michigan morgue.

Officers arrived Tuesday at his son's home in Warren to find the corpse in the front passenger seat wearing a seatbelt and sunglasses.